Life Cycle Assessment of new fermented food products mixing cow milk and pea protein sources

Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) were performed to assess the environmental performance of 4 new fermented food products that mix animal (milk) and plant (pea) protein sources in different ratios (100% Pea, 75% Pea-25% Milk, 50% Pea-50% Milk, 25% Pea-75% Milk). The system perimeter goes from the agricultural production of the ingredients to the ready-to-eat products. Environmental impact results were obtained for 1 kg of ready-to-eat product, for all the environmental indicators calculated by the EF 3.0 Method on the SimaPro software. Life cycle inventories included the different flows in the LCA (raw materials, energy, water, cleaning products, packaging, transport, wastes). Foreground data have been acquired on the manufacturing site, background data were taken from the Ecoinvent 3.6 database. The dataset contains details on products, processes, equipment, infrastructures, mass and energy flows, Life Cycle Inventories (LCI) and Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) results.